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Magical Mystery Tour |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Roberta Rubenstein |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,664 Words, 16,548 Characters |
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SORCERER 'S APPRENTICE
Tahir Shah
New York: Arcade, 2001
323 pp., $25.95
The title of an album inspired by the Beatles' travels in India is an apt phrase to describe Sorcerer's Apprentice, Tahir Shah's engaging exploration of magic, illusion, and conjuring as they are practiced in India by a remarkable group of holy men, charlatans, and individuals who are neither quite one nor the other. Additionally, Shah's book is a travel guide--unlike any other you're likely to encounter--and the charting of the author's own spiritual journey. The author (son of Sayed Idries Shah, the distinguished interpreter of Sufism for the West) is an unfailingly entertaining guide. His eye misses no striking detail as he combines into a rich verbal brew the colors, shapes, smells, tastes, sights, and illu...
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...it up out of whole cloth. This is not the India one finds in travel guides by Fodor and Fielding--although it would be an equally valuable book to read before traveling in India. Rather, as thoroughly entertained readers of Sorcerer's Apprentice will have concluded by the end of the book, it is Tahir Shah himself who is the master of illusion, the marvelous guide of this magical mystery tour.
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